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'Very, very happy': Sister got call from president saying Lombard native was released by Taliban | |
September 20, 2022 Charlene Cakora devoted "every day" of the last 31 months to setting her brother free. Her anguish has turned into a wave of relief. American hostage Mark Frerichs, a Lombard native and civil engineering contractor who was abducted in Afghanistan in January 2020, was released by the Taliban on Monday in exchange for a convicted Taliban drug lord who had been held in U.S. federal prison Source: https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20220919/very-very-happy-sister-got-call-from-president-saying-lombard-native-was-released-by-taliban |